Dan Burton: “The inadvertent depiction, I hope, that Muslims in America are out to overthrow our government, at least that is the way…”

“The inadvertent depiction, I hope, that Muslims in America are out to overthrow our government, at least that is the way I interpreted it. I said there is a messianic totalitarian movement in Iran and Sudan that would spread across the world, if it could, and like to capture the control of governments, that India is an important link to stopping that terrorism threat. I would like to say to the gentleman that Asia Watch has not been accurate about a lot of this in the past. I do not believe they are accurate today about the human rights violations. I would cite that the American Conservative Union, no less, has a paper out today that I have in mind that says we should not be adopting your amendment, that things have changed with India, that we ought to look at the national and international strategic alliance that India's new vibrant democracy provides to us. While, yes, we do not want to put our heads in the sand about violations of human rights, we have to look out about America's national security interests first. We have to look at reality, which is India is emerging from the past. It is doing a good job now. We should defeat the Burton amendment.”